Comparing strings by their alphabetical order

Question

String s1 = \"Project\";
String s2 = \"Sunject\";

I want to compare the two above string by their alphabetic order (which in this case \"Project\"

Answer 1

As others suggested, you can use String.compareTo(String).

But if you are sorting a list of Strings and you need a Comparator, you don't have to implement it, you can use Comparator.naturalOrder() or Comparator.reverseOrder().